While most video game companies have temporary partnerships with book publishers on a per-game basis, THQ and Random House have settled on a more permanent arrangement. According to the press release, the partnership will be to create new IP and continue foster trans-media proliferation of existing ones, like THQ and Kaos Studios’ Homefront, which recently […]
While not quite the exodus stemming from Sony Online Entertainment, THQ has had to make some severe cuts across several of its studios. The publisher has confirmed 30 people have been let go between Volition (the Red Faction franchise) and Kaos Studios (Homefront), leaving the company with a reported staff of approximately 220 employees.
Gamasutra has reported that a the Quebec Superior Court has granted Ubisoft an injunction against THQ, to help prevent it from ‘poaching’ any more former-Ubisoft employees to staff the recently founded THQ Montreal studio with. In October 2010, THQ announced that Patrice Desilets, the creative director behind the Assassin’s Creed franchise, would be heading up […]
Gamespot has reported that THQ will be releasing Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine in August 2011. The third-person action game, which will feature players taking on the role of a character known as Captain Titus, is being developed by Relic Entertainment, the studio that is also behind the Warhammer 40,000 real-time strategy titles.